Interac Debit Payment Mode

Once the generic payment mode is configured, you must configure a payment mode for each card brand accepted by the merchant. For example, if the merchant accepts Mastercard, Visa, American Express and Interac Debit, you must create and configure a payment mode for each card brand individually.

NOTE: Since the configuration for Interac Debit is unique, it has its own topic. If you need to configure payment modes for various credit card brands, please see Credit Card Payment Modes to learn more.

IMPORTANT! Before creating payment modes for the various card brands accepted by the merchant, the generic Credit/Debit payment mode must be created. Please see Generic Credit/Debit Payment Mode to learn how to configure it.

Start the Point of Sale Control module.

Select the Invoice menu and select the Payment modes... option.

Select an empty slot, ideally choosing the smallest slot number available.

The payment mode's properties will open on the Configuration tab. Settings highlighted with red arrows in the screenshot below need to be configured. Other settings are either optional or need to be left disabled.

Description

Type a meaningful name for this payment mode, such as INTERAC DEBIT.

2nd name

Type an alternate name for this payment mode, to be used in a second language.

Icon / Icon position

Optionally, this setting can be used to assign an icon to the payment mode to make it stand out on the POS screen.

Overpayment

Select Tip from the drop-down list.

Send to

From the drop-down menu, select the Payment Mode into which the tips will be accumulated. For instance, if servers claim their tips from the cash in their respective floats, select CASH.

Auto. amount / Max. amount

Leave both of these settings at 0.

Rounding

Leave this option disabled.

Exchange rate

Leave all the options in this section disabled. This is only used for foreign currency.

Paid-in

Leave all the options in this section disabled.

Receipt Printing

These settings are optional and can be configured according to the merchants needs or preferences.

Click on the Options tab and configure these settings according to the merchant's needs and preferences.

Recommended options:

Payment Transfer
Transactions on reports
Transactions on workstation reports
"Complete" button
Open cash drawer

Click on the Credit Card tab.

Electronic funds transfer

Activate this option to allow this payment mode to trigger the payment terminal.

Debit card

ENABLE this option.

Corporate communications

Configure this field only if you use Corporate communications.

General ledger number

Configure this field only if you use the accounting interface.

Sales recording type

If you are located in the Canadian province of Québec, set this drop-down list to Debit. Otherwise, simply ignore this setting.

Click the Save button to save you settings and return to the payment modes list. The newly created payment mode will appear in the list.

This concludes the setup instructions for the Interac Debit payment mode. If not done already, don't forget to create payment modes for each supported credit card brand, as described in the Credit Card Payment Modes topic.